Rai Teche

Short documentary about the great italian director.

Altrimenti Inventa is an archival documentary that addresses the lack of representation of North African populations who migrated to Italy before the 1990s. It attempts an experimental reinvention of the missing archive, starting with the director's family history and then moving towards a more collective dimension, questioning the themes of identity, memory, and their relationship with what we choose to preserve and why.

Through the testimonies of some Italian women, the documentary evokes the day of 2 June 1946, when they were called upon to cast their vote for the first time. The battles conducted by Italian women in the years leading up to 1946 to demand recognition of the right to vote. The approval of the right to vote for women by the Italian Parliament on 1 February 1945, at the proposal of the Italian Communist Party Secretary Palmiro Togliatti and statesman and founder of the Christian Democratic Party De Gasperi. The role of the first 21 women elected to the Constituent Assembly on 2 June 1946, and their contribution to the writing of the Italian Constitution.

Documentary on the life and work of legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci, using filmed interviews he has given over the last 50 years.

A motorist is driving from Turin to Sicilu and listening to the radio. The real journey that leads from Turin to Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome to Sicily is actually a journey through time (made entirely from italian public television's archive material).

The second part of Giovanna Gagliardo's documentary recounts forty years of Italian history, and more, through film footage and photos from the 1960s to the present day.

Italy, from the '50s to the present day, told through the eyes of generations of children captured in Rai's (Italian public TV) archival footage.

Ettore Scola, in 1973, made the film Trevico-Torino, the story of a boy from the south who emigrated to Turin in search of work. Ten years later, Scola returns to the city to shoot Wish I Fly, in which the little protagonist embodies the hope of a better future. That child, forty years later, has spent more than half of his life in prison